Dr. Kerri-Ann M. Smith is the inaugural Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Queensborough Community College (QCC). An Associate Professor of English, her work centers diversity and inclusion and culturally responsive pedagogy. She served on the president’s Faculty Diversity Advisory Planning Committee for six years and is very engaged with issues concerning diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. She is currently the QCC CORE member of the CUNY Incubator and the current Chair of the Publications Committee at QCC. Her most recent publication “The Fierce Urgency of No: Moving from Aspirational to Operational” can be found in The Experiences of Black Women Diversity Practitioners in Historically White Institutions, published by IGI Global.